Last week, the uThekela municipality in KwaZulu-Natal announced that sixteen scholarships would be made available for sexually inactive students, as part of a programme called Maiden’s Bursary Awards.

Understandably, women’s rights groups have freaked the flip out, pointing out that there’s a whole host of stuff wrong with this notion.

They have raised the issue that there is no particular link between sexual activity and academic ability, that it silences dialogue around safe sex in a country with a severe HIV infection problem among teenage girls, that it targets only girls and allows boys to do whatever they like, and that it shames girls who legally engage in physical intimacy.

It is patriarchal tosh of the highest order.

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